Fast Report Cloud 2022.2

Added Task Scheduler API

With the 2022.2 version, it became possible to prepare, export, and send the results of your actions via email or to a scheduled webhook.

There are 3 types of task launches:

1. Fire-and-Forget—the task starts when the API method is called with its id value.

2. Delayed—starts the task execution at the specified time.

3. Recurrent—starts scheduled tasks using CRON expressions.

The screenshot above shows an example of sending a PDF report export to email every 30 minutes. It will be sent at the specified time.

You can try the API Scheduler at the following link.

Added connection to Firebird

Now you can link information from the Firebird database to your reports. For stable work, you need to activate the WireCrypt property in firebird.conf.

Added connection to MongoDB

In addition to Firebird, we set up a data connection from MongoDb. Just add it on the Data Sources page, and it will be available for use in the online designer.

Added form for editing JSON connection

We've improved the JSON connection by adding the ability to edit text, schemas, and request headers.

Changed editing default permissions

There are 2 types of permissions in FastReport Cloud:

• entity permissions;
• default permissions that are used if the first permission type is not set.

With this update, you can edit permissions on the Groups page.

Now there is the dialog for user removal from the workspace

The button to remove a user (or leave, if you try to remove yourself) is available via path: Groups -> Others -> Users.

Click on the name of the required user, and you will see a confirmation window.

New SDK for PHP language along with demo application

On our GitHub page, you will find numerous SDKs available for development in various programming languages.

This list was added with the PHP kit, available at the following link.

A demo application for using this SDK is available on our GitHub at the following link.

Full list of changes:

[Backend] 
+ added font microservice that returns CSS styles by font name; 
+ added permissions for the TaskModel; 
+ added methods for getting and changing permissions in the TasksController; 
+ added an ability to call webhooktask with headers; 
+ added an ability to update Tasks from API;
+ added sorting function in file list request via API;
+ added support for connections to firebird on the server (the WireCrypt property in firebird.conf must be Enabled for them to work); 
+ added license check for corporate server; 
+ added a scheduler to run delayed tasks; 
+ added connection to MongoDB; 
+ added the ability to run scheduled tasks using CRON expressions;
*now you can use regular expressions when searching for files and folders. For this, you need to set the useRegex parameter to true; 
* added logic to prevent the creation of files and folders with the same names (when downloading, copying, moving, exporting, preparing, renaming); 
- fixed a rare bug that caused workers to stop functioning; 
- fixed a bug where files were set to Success status immediately upon creation; 
- fixed a bug when a thumbnail was prepared by an anonymous user; 
- fixed a bug due to which incorrect thumbnails were built for FRX files; 
- fixed a bug when MyPermissions sometimes returns  500 error instead of user permissions; 
- fixed a bug, when rights combined with the default rights were returned when requesting model rights;
- fixed a bug when download errors always returned 406 status code;
- fixed the launch of a sequence from identical tasks;
- fixed a bug, which caused all data sources to always show their connection type as JSON; 
- removed the HasSpaceOverdraft field in subscription plans and subscriptions; 
- removed Default service; 

[Common]
+ added PHP SDK toolkit and demo application to it;
+ added basic article about using REST API Tasks;
*changed export and preparation folder id description in documentation; 
* red favicon replaced with blue ones; 

[Frontend] 
+ added redirect from/app/signin page if user has already logged in; 
+ added a context menu when right-clicking on an empty space;
+ added the ability to change the default permissions in the admin panel;
+ added permission management for Tasks on the "Groups" page;
+ added a tutorial for starting the application, posted on the "About product" page;
+ added a dialog message after clicking on the bell when there are no notifications;
+ added the ability to set the folder name directly during creation; 
+ added user removal dialog. To remove a user, click on it in the list of workspace users ("Groups" tab);
+ added a Firebird connection interface;
+ added a button to check the connection string before creating a data source;
+ added a form for creating a JSON connection; 
* settings and scheduler menu items are temporarily disabled;
*calculation of selected files is now much faster if the "Select All" button was not used;
*deletion of several files will now not be stopped if any file is not found;
*description of user lists on the “Groups” page;
*right-clicking on an empty space on the page will now open a context menu with creation options;
*now, when clicking outside the list of items, the selection will be reset;
- fixed a bug with the absence of a subscription id when starting a thumbnail prepare task; 
- fixed Null Reference bug on the "Groups" page; 
- fixed a bug when the thumbnail was not requested for the report;
- fixed the creation of an extra folder in the folder creation dialog;
- fixed a bug when several extra folders were created during folder creation;
- now in the preview, you can see more correct messages about errors when they are detected; 
- display of the file owner has been fixed, now it is correctly written who is the owner.